István Márkuly

Permaculture system designer and implementer - Consultant - Accredited permaculture instructor - Community developer

Istvan is an active member of the permaculture network in Ireland, particularly in West Cork. He is regularly invited to design and teach in other parts of Ireland, Europe, Africa and Asia. He gained his experience through many years of international internships, during which he has been exposed to a wide range of cultures and ecosystems, from wetlands to desert landscapes. He obtained a Sustainable Horticulture/Permaculture degree from Kinsale College in 2015. He completed a number of international training programmes led by some of the most well-known consultants in the field. His masters include Warren Bush, Paul Taylor and Geoff Lawton. As the co-founder of Earth Environmental Education, he is committed to make permaculture principles, its philosophy and practice accessible and popular, so that more people can make them part of their everyday lives.

Geoff Lawton

Permaculture consultant

Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. He obtained his PDC in 1983 with Bill Mollison, widely regarded as the "Father of Permaculture". Since 1985, Geoff has specialized in permaculture education, design, implementation, system building, administration and community development. Working in over 50 countries, Geoff has taught over 15,000 students.

He founded the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia and Zaytuna Farm, home to Geoff and Nadia's family. As an award-winning permaculture designer, Geoff's main goal is to encourage the creation of self-replicating educational demonstration sites around the world.

Warren Brush

Design Consultant

Warren Brush is a global resilience planning consultant, educator, speaker and storyteller. For over 30 years, he has worked in agroecological education and regenerative system design for communities, private and public organizations, households, farms and conservation properties worldwide.

He is a co-founder of Quail Springs Permaculture, Wilderness Youth Project and True Nature Design Consulting, as well as a consulting founder of the Permaculture Research Institute in Kenya. He was also a member of the USAID TOPS team where he helped develop the Resilience Design and Permagarden Frameworks, and is currently working as a consultant for the SCALE award funded by USAID Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).

His efforts with youth around the world have included child soldiers in West Africa, teaching organic gardening skills to refugee families, inspiring inner-city youth to discover their potential, and developing unique educational programs to encourage connection with nature and express their true connection.

Sam Parker-Davies

Permaculture designer

Sam is a permaculture designer, practitioner, farmer, teacher and consultant from the Blue Mountains and Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia. He has taught and consulted in 12 countries on 4 different continents. With the most vulnerable members of our earth and those who are most capable of achieving large-scale change. Sam has dedicated his life to making the biggest difference possible.

Gábor Molnár

Horticultural engineer

Gábor graduated as a horticultural engineer. He worked for five and a half years in vegetable seed cultivation and breeding, then worked as a project coordinator at a food industry company. Gabor completed the Permaculture Design Course with the Életfa Permakultura in 2020. Putting what he learned there into practice, he transformed the garden of an office building in Budapest using a permaculture approach and continued to work on the foundation of this area for the following two years. His main areas of interest include soil revitalization, the creation of plant systems, selective breeding, building bridges between cultures, and shaping the attitudes of future generations as a parent.

Kriszti Barnáné Gyollai and János Barna

owners of MediterranFarm webshop

Our motto comes from Sir David Attemborough: "If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us."

This approach is implemented in 4 different ways in our everyday life:

1. We specialize in native trees, shrubs and herbaceous, wild plants.

2. We have created detailed descriptions for all our products to educate the public about the characteristics and usefulness of wild plants. We thrive to raise awareness about these species.

3. We have created a forest garden on our farm, where you can gain an insight into the benefits of our plants.

4. Since we completed the Permaculture Design Course in 2021, more and more people have approached us to design their gardens in a biodiverse way.

This is how we try to take care of nature

Éva Vida

Community Builder

Permaculture... my system, your system, our system.

Permaculture for me is the solution in this messy world, it multiplies the power of community and provides structure to get things done. Saving the world with practical tools and with collaboration with nature. It is also an exciting journey, a lifetime of discovery full of good intentions.

Veronika Gaestné Gyenes

Conservation Engineer

Veronika fell in love with forestry though her father's forest nursery, founded in 1991. In 2012, she decided to join the family business. Her father was one of the pioneering growers and has been producing bare root plants since 2007. Since then - apart from a couple of breaks - forestry has been an integral part of her life. Year of 2022 brought a new perspective to her life, and the team of ELetfa Permakultura is grateful to her for enriching the PDC course with her personality and knowledge. Her workshop gives an insight into how diverse and varied nature is.

I started my career as an online marketing expert 15 years ago. During this time I managed and mentored teams of up to 28 people – my goal has always been to motivate and promote personal growth while ensuring the well-being of all team members.

Recognising that my mission in life was to realise greater goals than just achieving larger business numbers, I chose to take a different path in life and left the business world behind and began volunteering in ecological projects in Central and Latin America.

Having planted over 8,000 trees on 50,000 sq. kilometres of land, I am now happily acquainted with a large network of new green friends throughout the world. During this time I have studied numerous alternative regenerative solutions. Having spent thousands of hours of listening to and in dialogue with friends across the world; Permaculture, reforestation, holistic ecology, regenerative market communities, syntropic agro-forestry and natural medicine solutions have become an integral part of my way of thinking. My main goal in life is to act as a catalyst to promote and implement regenerative projects that care for the wellbeing of the soil, people and communities.